Why Fun Matters in Building Your Life Beyond an Eating Disorder

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A Little Cheerlead For Anyone In Eating Disorder Recovery: Eating disorder recovery is long, hard work and exhausting at times and it can be all too tempting to give up when you feel like you are struggling just to tread water. This episode is a little cheerleading episode for anyone in recovery who needs it... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Make Each Day Your Best Recovery Day Yet: A common thought pattern for people with eating disorders which can keep someone in the illness or lead to a slide back in recovery, is the 'I didn't eat that much yesterday, so I don't need to today' thinking. In this episode I talk about this commo... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Keep Shaking It Up in Recovery!: Eating disorder recovery is a long process and it is easy to get complacent and stuck in new recovery ruts along the way. This is why it is crucial to keep shaking recovery up! My coaching website: www.hellybarnes.com by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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The Basic Principles of Rewiring the Brain (Eating Disorder Recovery): Rewiring the brain is an essential part of the eating disorder recovery process, so that you can 'wire in' recovery positive actions, thoughts and behaviours and 'wire out' the old disordered pathways. In this episode, I discuss the basics of what ne... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Being Greedy and Eating Disorder Recovery: So many people face feelings of greed and wrong doing in eating disorder recovery which are so intense that it holds them back from all the food they should be eating and want to eat! In this episode I discuss the concept of greed and whether it is a... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

10 min listen

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Rational or Emotional? Eating Disorder Recovery and The Brain Based Tug of War: In this episode, I go back to some more neuroscience about two different brain regions, one of which controls our 'rational' selves and the other our 'emotional' reactions (the pre-frontal cortex and limbic system). I then explain the tug of war tha... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Turn Fear Into Excitement In Eating Disorder Recovery: On a biological / physiological level, fear and excitement are the exact same response and it is just our interpretation of what is happening in our body that makes one of them fear and one excitement. Therefore, in eating disorder recovery, it can b... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Losing Control of Eating or Gaining Control of Recovery?: In eating disorder recovery, many people experience urges to eat high quantities of food in a binge or feast eating style and then describe this as having 'lost control' of their eating. In this episode I argue that this is not losing control when pe... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Tips To Help Rewire Your Brain in Eating Disorder Recovery & Why They Matter!: In eating disorder recovery, it is important to rewire your brain in a positive, self directed, recovery focused direction. Understanding some of the neuroscience behind how rewiring happens on a brain based level can help when you are in recovery to... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Take Charge of your Eating Disorder Recovery!!: Eating disorders can create so many stories about why recovery is not possible right now. They use blame of others, obstacles in your life and any other reason for why you need to delay. But in order to recover, you need to take charge and do recove... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Go Wild and Free in Eating Disorder Recovery!: Eating disorders can make a person rigid, routine driven, perfectionistic and sorry, but I know because I have been there, they make a person a bit boring! In recovery, it can really help to find the fun in recovery and perhaps it is time to find you... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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An Introduction To The Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast and To Me (Helly)!: This first episode of the Feck It, Fun, Fabulous and Free Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast introduces the podcast series. Within this episode, I explain the title of the series, as well as provide information about me (Helly), your host, in terms of ... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Full Recovery Bulletproof? Avoid Complacency In Eating Disorder Recovery: This is an episode in which I share my opinions and thoughts on whether anyone can be bulletproof in full recovery from an eating disorder, and the concerns I have about people getting too complacent in full recovery. My coaching services: www.hellyb... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Rewire Faster in Eating Disorder Recovery By Using Positivity!: In eating disorder recovery, it is crucial to rewire your brain so that the new habits of eating without restriction and not compensating for eating in any way become hard wired in and take little or no conscious effort in future. One way to help rew... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Ensure Your Environment Triggers You Towards Recovery!: In this episode, I talk about how to make sure that your environment and the things you see, hear, notice and people you spend time with each and every day are all set up so that they will 'trigger' your brain to consider the recovery option in each ... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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The Whack A Mole Game Of Eating Disorder Recovery: Eating disorder recovery can be like a game of whack a mole... deal with one eating disorder restriction or behaviour and while your back is turned, another one has popped up that then needs addressing too! My coaching services: www.hellybarnes.com by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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What is Compulsive Movement With An Eating Disorder & Why Does It Matter?: For many people with an eating disorder, compulsive exercise and movement is a huge part and rarely adequately addressed in treatment. Unless people do overcome the compulsive movement in recovery, they won't recover. This episode explains what compu... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Rest & Relaxation Skills To Learn in Recovery: In eating disorder recovery, it is really important to develop skills in rest and relaxation... because when you have an eating disorder, the ability to rest and to relax will very likely not come naturally to you. Find out more about my coaching: ww... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Unrestricted Eating Is For Life, Not Just Recovery!: When you have an eating disorder, it can be the case that you are scared to recover because you fear that when you are 'recovered' you will have to restrict your intake again (this fear is often a result of traditional treatment approaches and diet c... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Eating Disorder Recovery Side Effects: Like treatment for any medical condition, treatment for eating disorder recovery does come with a lot of side effects, many of which are not particularly fun and can even be very challenging in themselves. In this episode I talk about some of the sid... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Tools to Help You Rest & Relax in Eating Disorder Recovery: Following earlier episodes on compulsive exercise and the importance of learning to rest and relax in eating disorder recovery, I was asked to make an episode with practical tools to help with resting when you are in recovery and have compulsive exer... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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An Eating Disorder is like a Spin Doctor in Your Brain!: One thing is true. Eating disorders are manipulative and they lie. They twist the reality of the person who has the illness and make them believe things or see things that are just not true or valid. But they are persuasive and believable. This epis... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Rewiring in Eating Disorder Recovery Applies to Thoughts Too!: In eating disorder recovery, when we talk about 'rewiring the brain', the concept applies to the thoughts you have, as well as your actions (and rewiring both together is the best option for a quicker recovery!). Find out more in this episode. More o... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Christmas and Eating Disorder Recovery - Aarghh!!: Christmas* when you have an eating disorder and you are in recovery can be hard, as I spoke about in the last episode. In this episode, I provide some tips on how you might make this Christmas better, despite the eating disorder and despite a brain s... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Top Tips to Overcome Restriction in Eating Disorder Recovery: Following on from an earlier episode about how restriction can sneakily manifest in eating disorder recovery, this episode includes lots of practical tips in how to overcome the restriction that is lingering in your life. My coaching: www.hellybarnes... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Project Manage Your Eating Disorder Recovery: This is an episode for anyone with a business, strategic or systematic type of brain... Eating disorder recovery is probably the most important thing you will do in your life and it is a full time project (or should be to be successful). Therefore, ... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Why Do I Think I’m Recovered After Eating Just One Big Fear Food In Recovery?: In this episode I answer a listener's question about why it is common for people in eating disorder recovery to have thoughts that they are 'recovered' after facing just one big fear or challenge. Find out more about my coaching: www.hellybarnes.com by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Use Dopamine to Motivate Your Eating Disorder Recovery: Most people have heard of dopamine as a brain chemical that rewards us for things that occur in our lives (things we do, see, taste etc)... But dopamine is also an important brain chemical in motivating us towards goals that are difficult. This episo... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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Exercise & Movement in Eating Disorder Recovery - is it Compulsive?: When in eating disorder recovery, how do you tell whether the movement and exercise you are or want to engage in is still compulsive? This is a dilemma that many people face when in recovery... how do I know if it is ok to move or exercise? How do I... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

15 min listen

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Use Fear FOR Your Eating Disorder Recovery!: We talk about fear a lot with eating disorders because the illness generates intense and powerful fear reactions when you try to eat more, rest more, face weight gain and those fears have to be faced in the process. But we don't often talk about usi... by Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

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